Tag: Mississippi

Rocketdyne claims the move to Huntsville is motivated by the lesser regulatory and tax burden in Mississippi and Alabama vs. California. But it's also a fact that the move will benefit the constituencies of Sens. Richard Shelby of Alabama (pictured) and Thad Cochran of Mississippi.

Rocketdyne moves to the South, and ‘pull’ is its reason

Eric Peters · August 4, 2017 4:01 am

"This could go down as one of the most vicious, and illegal, anti-union crusades in decades," Vermont independent says. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Bernie Sanders attacks Nissan over union campaign

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2017 9:20 pm

In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, photo, a UAW member holds up a flyer to be given to Nissan workers as they leave the Nissan vehicle assembly plant in Canton, Miss. Union members met most shifts arriving and leaving waving posters, flyers and singing union chants at each of the plant's employee entrances. In voting that begins early Thursday, Aug. 3, some 3,700 direct employees at Nissan Motor Co.'s car and truck assembly plant in Canton will decide whether they want a union. The polls close at 7 p.m., local time on Friday. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi Nissan plant vote a crucial test for unions

Sean Higgins · August 3, 2017 4:01 am

Workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., are set to vote on unionization this week, beginning Aug. 3. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The French are sold on the UAW; Mississippi auto workers maybe not so much

Steven Allen · August 2, 2017 4:01 am

Fifteen Marines and a Navy sailor killed in the plane crash earlier this week in Mississippi. (Elijah Baylis/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

Marines release tribute video for 16 killed in KC-130 crash: WATCH

Sean Langille · July 14, 2017 7:24 pm

UAW demands union vote at Mississippi Nissan plant

Sean Higgins · July 10, 2017 10:53 pm

Southern Company has spent seven years and nearly $8 billion to build the coal gasification plant, which had initially been projected to cost just $3 billion in 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Energy and Environment

Clean coal power plant ordered to run on natural gas

John Siciliano · June 22, 2017 4:42 pm

Strain said charges have not yet been filed against the suspect, who was arrested in Brookhaven, and that it would be "premature" to discuss a motive. (Therese Ape/The Clarion-Ledger)

Police say 8 dead in 3 Mississippi shootings

Associated Press · May 28, 2017 3:32 pm

Two other states list the gas as an executive method, but it's never been used on an inmate. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Alabama Senate advances bill to use nitrogen gas in executions

Anna Giaritelli · April 19, 2017 12:16 am

ICE releases Mississippi woman with expired status

Anna Giaritelli · March 11, 2017 12:12 am

Patricia Ice, an attorney with the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, left, hands out flyers to Jordan Sanders of Vicksburg, that call for the freeing of 22-year old Daniela Vargas, a Argentine native who has lived in the United States since she was seven years old, following a brief rally on her behalf, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, March 3, 2017, Vargas was detained, March 1, by immigration agents who state that she is a "unlawfully present Argentinian citizen" during a "targeted immigration enforcement action." (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Immigrant with expired visa asks for deportation court hearing

Anna Giaritelli · March 4, 2017 2:09 am

Daniela Vargas, whose father and brother were picked up during a recent immigration raid of undocumented immigrants listens as speakers discuss the series of raids that also picked up other undocumented immigrants across the state during a news conference at the Jackson, Miss., city hall, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Vargas was detained by ICE agents following the news conference. A college student, Vargas hopes to continue her education but fears for the fate of other undocumented immigrant families. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Feds pick up woman with expired DACA status after she tells crowd she could be deported

Anna Giaritelli · March 2, 2017 12:57 am